Tire.



E.FAVA RY. TiRE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1909.

1,136,62, I Patented M11120, 1915.

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A PPLICATIO N FILED JULY6, 1909. V I 1,136,669. Patented Apr. 20, 1915 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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'. equalities of the roadway, and at the same ETHELBERT FAVARY, OF EAST BDSTON, MaE5fTilCHU"FYRTTS.

TIRE.

-Be; it known that I, ETHELBERT FAVARY,

citizen of Hungary, residing at East Boston, in the-county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tires, of which. the following is a specification.

The invention relates to vehicle tires and comprehendscertain newand useful improvements in such tires, with the object in view of roviding a tire structure which will readily accommodate itself 'toethe intime avoid the annoyances arising from the puncture of the air chamber when this is used, lessen the amount of rubber and fabric required in the construction of the air chamber, and avoid the wear upon the walls of the air chamber ordinarily occasioned by their contact with the road surface.

Having these objects in view, my invention consistsin providing anaccommodating structure of pliable bands and suitable suppdrt's mounted upon an air chamber, and brought into a condition of tension suitable to support the intended load by the pressure of air maintained within the air chamber,

together with other details of construction articularly described hereinafter and set orth in the appended claims.

In connection with the following description of the invention, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate tires in which the spirit of the invenside elevation of a vehicle wheel equipped tion is embodied, it being understood that the invention is not limited to the form shown, but rather that the illustrations are intended to indicate diagrammatically the physical application of the manner in which the principles involved are applied, in accordance with the description.

Inthe drawings, Figure 1 represents a with an embodiment of my invention consisting of a pneumatic tire which supports and tensions a single pliable tread-carrying band; Fig. 1 represents a like view of a portion of the wheel equipped with a tire involving a slight modification of the structure illustrated in Fig. 1; Fig. 2 represents aside elevation of a wheel equipped with my preferred form of tire, which embodies two pliable bands supported and tensioned by an inflated pneumatic tire in such man- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ann-2411, 1915..

Application filed July 6, 1909. Serial No. 506,153.

ner that the structure as a whole has a large capacity for accommodating itself to the inequalities of the roadway, together with a high degree of resilience, while the walls of the air chamber are never subjected to contact with the surface of the roadway; Fig.

' 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of a porstructure of my tire is used to define a fieXi-- his material which will readily adapt itself to the shape of an obstruction with which it is brought in contact, in contradistinction to a material which is relatively stifi and offers any considerable resistance to deformation. The form taken by the bands within the tread-carrying structure of my tire will therefore be seen to be due to the tension exerted upon the bands, and not to the tendency of the band to naturally assume this form.

Reference to the drawings,'and particularly to Fig. 1, shows the character 1 to designate a felly of a wheel, which, with the spokes and hub, may be of the usual construction employed upon vehicles of the class upon which resilient tires are used, and 2 designates the rim which usually surrounds the'felly, such as the channeled rim ordinarily employed with pneumatic and cushion tires of the clencher type. 3 designates the outer casing or shoe which may be secur d to the rim in any desireil way, such, for instance, as by the beads employed with the clenchei' type; and 4 designates an inner tube of the usual type. Combined with these. already known devices, my in vention comprises a plurality of relatively rigid supports 6, which rest upon the peripheral wall of the pneumatic tire 3, and support a substantially inelastic band 5 upon the outer surface of which a tread of rubber or other suitable substance'is se-' cured. The band 5 is preferably made of band may which a straight employed, but this be composed of rubber and canvas, vulcanized fabric, leather, thin steel, wires, wire ropes orcables, twine, chains,

etc., so long as the pliable characteristic strong woven fabric in longitudinal warp is before mentioned is retained, and the .material is capable of withstanding the tenp instance,

tlons of rubber.

. band, though in Fig.

Inentation or vulcanization. ,I

sion required to support the intended load. The supports 6 are preferably made of metal, either solid or hollow, or of other rigid substance, though a material may be employed which is not actually rigid, but is still enough to sustain the band when tension is brought upon'it, such, for

as some of theha-rder composi- Thesupports 6 are preferably positively connected by staples or rivets 7 or the like to both the peripheral wall of the air chamber and to-the tension have shown a 3 I structure wherein the siipports 6, though being positively connected to the band 5 by seated to the depresrivets or staples, are sions 9, molded in the air chamber. ports in depressions in the wall of the. airchamber will prevent creep 0 structure, I. prefer to positively attach the supports to both the wall of the'air chamber and the band.

It may be advantageous ports to the tensioned band and to a base band andthen attach the base band to the peripheral wall of the air 'chamber by ceper'ipheral wall of the such a structure in Fig. 1*, and it would appear that this arrangement'would be of advantage in combining my tread structure with a pneumatic tire of the usual type to provide my new tire structure.

It.is to be understood that any suitable outer cover may be employed so that the entire arrangement may be inclosed if desired.

But I have omitted any showing of such outer cover,'as it, in itself, forms no part of i and one series of supports, I

my presentinvention.

Instead of.employing 'one pliable band prefer to employ two or more pliable bands as illustrated in Fig. 2, and a plurality of supports, designated .6, one set of supports being placed in staggered relation to the supports in the other set. invention, the supportsfor the outer band 5", should be positively connected .in thethe. tensionedbands, the inner band In'this embodiment of the manner hereinbefore described, to both of and the supports for should be positively connected to that band, and preferably have a positive connection to the peripheral wall of the air chamber.

In Fig. 2, the supportsfi", for the inner tensioned bands may be projections from the wall of the air chamber, though it is desupports some i air chamber,

While this seating of the supthe tread to secure the supv have shown ripheral wall of said air able sirable that these supports be of comparetively hard rubber, if such a structure is to be employed, as theywould be crushed by the pressure required to tension the bands, if too soft. I I

I deem it most preferable to employ rigid for both bands. T1 1 In Figs. 4 and 5, the tread surface of the v tire is respectively shown as curved and straight, in cross section. Either form may be employed, and the supports 6 and 6 shaped to correspond.

The tread structure comprising the-ten sioned band and its support, or the Phirality of bands and their supports, should, of course, have an inner diameter of somewhat less than the maximum diameter of the in order that the inflation of the air chamber may put the bands under suificient tension to resist the load and prevent the collapse of the tread structure and the consequent contact of the air chamber walls with the surface of the roadway.

In each of the embodiments of my mven- I tion, it is to be understood that every two adjacent supports hold under tension that portion of the encircling band or hands that lies between them, so-that whenany portion of the wheel receives an inward v stress or impact, such portion of-the band will yield, to draw all of the outlying portion of the band toward the point of dip or inward movement, the stress being thereby: distributed and the resiliency materially increased.

From the foregoing description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, t

ported upon and connectedwith said supports, to be brought into a state of tension by the inflation of said air chamber, substantially as described.

2. A vehicle tire comprising ai'r chamber, relatively mounted upon an an annular band'tread supported upon and connected with said supports, a state of tension by the inflationof said air chamber, substantially as described.

3. 'A vehicle tire comprising an annular air chambena series of relatively rigid suprequired in theof said air chamber and a pliable band tread'suprigid supports d connected with the pe-- chamber and a plito be brought into ports mounted upon the peripheral wall of said air chamber, a pliable band supported upon and connected with said supports, a second series of relatively rigidfsupports mounted upon and connected With, the betweemsupport stretches of suid"'pliable band, and a pliablwti'eu'd band mounted upon and connected to said second series of supports, said bandsbeing subjected to tension by the inflation of said air chamber, 10 substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. THELBER A fig-i Witnesses;

H. W. PHILLIPS, JoHN T. HABERLIN. 

